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Joshua Rufus Rozenberg KC (hon) (born 30 May 1950) is a British
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,
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commentator, and
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.


Early life and career

He was educated at
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in
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and
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,
University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...
, where he took a law degree. He qualified as a
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in 1976 after training at Dixon Ward solicitors in
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. Rozenberg began his career in journalism in 1975 at the BBC, where he launched ''Law in Action'' on
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in 1984. At the BBC he worked as a producer, reporter and then legal correspondent. In 2000 he left to join ''
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'' as legal affairs editor, where he remained until the end of 2008. In 2015 he explained that he had resigned because news editors had altered one of his reports without his knowledge to make what he had already warned them was a false claim. After leaving the ''Telegraph'' he wrote a column for the ''
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.'' Now a freelance journalist, he writes regular columns for the ''
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'' and ''The Critic''. He wrote a weekly column for '' The Guardian's'' online law page from 2010 to 2016. Also in 2010, he returned to the BBC to present ''Law in Action,'' nearly 25 years after leaving the radio programme. Rozenberg holds honorary doctorates in law from the
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(1999),
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(2012), the
University of Lincoln , mottoeng = Freedom through wisdom , established = 1861 – Hull School of Art1905 – Endsleigh College1976 – Hull College1992 – University of Humberside1996 – University of Lincolnshire and Humberside2001 � ...
(2014) and the
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(2014). Rozenberg is also an honorary
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of
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, and is a non-executive board member of the
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. He has won the
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's Legal Reporting Award four times. In January 2016, he was made an honorary QC.


Personal life

Rozenberg is married to fellow journalist Melanie Phillips; the couple have two children. He is Jewish.


Publications

* *Joshua Rozenberg (24 April 1997). ''Trial of Strength'', Richard Cohen Books, . * *


References


External links

*
Joshua Rozenberg's Twitter account
*Columns for
The Critic
'
Rozenberg's blog
at ''
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''
Law column
at '' Standpoint''
''Law Reports,'' the former column of Rozenberg
at the ''
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